Research Citations No Longer Point to the Wrong Paragraph

What changed

When you open a citation in a research answer, the full-text reader is supposed to scroll you to the exact passage backing the claim being made. A bug in the anchor logic meant that in certain judgments — particularly long ones and those with non-standard internal paragraph numbering — the citation opened the correct case but landed on the wrong paragraph. The authority was right; the scroll position was not. You arrived at the right case and then had to search through it to find the passage that actually mattered.

We corrected the mapping logic that connects each citation to its precise location inside a judgment. The fix handles variable paragraph-numbering schemes, constitutional-bench decisions that run to hundreds of paragraphs, and judgments with unusual heading structures — exactly the cases where the offset was most pronounced. Opening a citation now positions you on the passage the research answer actually relied on.

How to use it

1. Ask a question in the Research workspace and receive an answer with citations.
2. Identify a citation marker attached to a specific proposition in the answer.
3. Click the citation. The full-text reader opens the judgment and scrolls directly to the relevant passage.
4. Read the passage in its surrounding context to confirm it supports the point as stated.
5. Use the table of contents panel or the related-judgments panel to explore the decision further if the broader context matters for your argument.

No configuration is required. The fix applies automatically to all research answers, including follow-up answers in an ongoing multi-turn session.

Why it matters

A citation has one purpose: take you to the exact text backing a claim, immediately. When the anchor is off, the core time saving of providing a citation disappears. In a judgment running to eighty or a hundred paragraphs, locating the correct passage by scanning is not a quick task, and that cost repeats for every citation in a long answer.

Reliable anchoring also makes verification more trustworthy. When you click and arrive in the right place, you assess the passage on its merits directly. When you arrive nearby but not quite right, you spend time first confirming you are looking at the cited text before you can evaluate it. That distinction matters when reviewing a research answer before it goes into a written submission, an advice note, or a pleading — contexts where every cited authority needs to hold up.

The fix also sharpens the value of citation confidence. The confidence signal tells you which citations deserve the closest attention. It is most actionable when clicking a citation immediately shows you the relevant passage, so you can evaluate it without an extra navigation step in between.

Good to know

• The correction applies across the full corpus of more than 72,000 Supreme Court and High Court judgments on Niyam, including the longest constitutional bench decisions where paragraph-offset errors were most visible.
• Follow-up answers in multi-turn research sessions carry the same fix, so citations in refined or narrowed questions also land correctly.
• Only the scroll position within the full-text reader is affected. Judgment text, metadata, and related-judgment links are unchanged.
• If an unusually structured judgment still causes a slight offset, the full text remains searchable inside the reader and you can jump to any section via the table of contents panel.
• Citation confidence and accurate anchoring work together: the confidence signal guides you to which authorities to check first; accurate anchoring makes each check fast.